Craig
@craigfoster.bsky.social
St Paul bike guy, cat guy, I purify proteins, ride the 61, and like to watch baseball
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everyone who drives a car regardless of their material wealth needs it, but if you *choose* not to own a car (because owning one is expensive af) and instead ride a bike you don’t *really* need it, so you just have to deal with the shitty consequences of your choice
so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them
December 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
everyone who drives a car regardless of their material wealth needs it, but if you *choose* not to own a car (because owning one is expensive af) and instead ride a bike you don’t *really* need it, so you just have to deal with the shitty consequences of your choice
I think the longest name of a street in Saint Paul is "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard"
Trivia that popped into my brain: What is the longest street in Saint Paul?
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I think the longest name of a street in Saint Paul is "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard"
Reminds me a lot of the bike lanes on Hennepin downtown. Why do we need to zig and zag, cars are the ones that suck!
Yes, the city needs to actually repave streets. Yes, the city needs to repair sidewalks. Yes, the city needs to install curb ramps.
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
December 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Reminds me a lot of the bike lanes on Hennepin downtown. Why do we need to zig and zag, cars are the ones that suck!
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In case you missed that this is an update: The woman has died. #SOS wants more of this. I hope @mayorher.bsky.social understands that this is why the Summit Regional plan is a critical need. Not one death is acceptable. We know how to prevent these deaths and have the ability to do so. A choice.
The 75-year-old woman and her husband were crossing the street when they were hit, according to police.
Link: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/st-paul-woman-dies-week-after-being-hit-by-driver-in-summit-avenue-crosswalk
Link: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/st-paul-woman-dies-week-after-being-hit-by-driver-in-summit-avenue-crosswalk
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In case you missed that this is an update: The woman has died. #SOS wants more of this. I hope @mayorher.bsky.social understands that this is why the Summit Regional plan is a critical need. Not one death is acceptable. We know how to prevent these deaths and have the ability to do so. A choice.
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Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
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the only windows app worth a damn continues to be Character Map. if they add copilot to Character Map I’m gonna riot
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
the only windows app worth a damn continues to be Character Map. if they add copilot to Character Map I’m gonna riot
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“I don’t understand why anybody, liberal or conservative, would be OK with ripping out almost new infrastructure,” Anoka Mayor Erik Skogquist said. “Sports stadiums last longer than this is lasting.”
www.startribune.com/northstar-co...
www.startribune.com/northstar-co...
With Northstar rail on fast track to closure, one city tries to pull the brakes
Anoka is worried about losing the train station as the northern suburb works to redevelop the area around it.
www.startribune.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“I don’t understand why anybody, liberal or conservative, would be OK with ripping out almost new infrastructure,” Anoka Mayor Erik Skogquist said. “Sports stadiums last longer than this is lasting.”
www.startribune.com/northstar-co...
www.startribune.com/northstar-co...
Can't believe this bus wasn't running Sundays or after Wolves games a season ago.
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Can't believe this bus wasn't running Sundays or after Wolves games a season ago.
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I dream that one day drivers will have the same patience for me crossing the street that they do waiting for a parking spot 10 feet closer to the mall entrance.
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I dream that one day drivers will have the same patience for me crossing the street that they do waiting for a parking spot 10 feet closer to the mall entrance.
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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Another example: obvious outcome of allowing parking in bus lanes
City bus had to leave new three-block-long dedicated bus lane because someone parked in it a half hour before that's allowed
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Another example: obvious outcome of allowing parking in bus lanes
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the war on cars is the most important war of our lives
We don't talk eough about how car dealers are one of the biggest bastions of conservatism in the United States.
With a car dealer father and he grew up in a fucking mansion. Fuck that dude generally and in particular.
September 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
the war on cars is the most important war of our lives
I'm not sure people are aware of just how often someone will yell at me on my bike for seemingly the mere sake of existing. I take so much psychic damage from it and it's directly why bits like the St Paul Saints' "bikes shouldn't be on the road" hot takes get my blood boiling
… rolled down his window and screamed “FUCK YOUUUU!” at me as he proceeded straight through the intersection.
🧐😒
2/2
🧐😒
2/2
September 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm not sure people are aware of just how often someone will yell at me on my bike for seemingly the mere sake of existing. I take so much psychic damage from it and it's directly why bits like the St Paul Saints' "bikes shouldn't be on the road" hot takes get my blood boiling
Having one of those days that I realize I've been putting a lot of random shit in my pockets lately
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Having one of those days that I realize I've been putting a lot of random shit in my pockets lately
Making a band singular:
3 -1 -1
3 -1 -1
Making a band singular:
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Making a band singular:
The Shin
The Shin
September 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Making a band singular:
3 -1 -1
3 -1 -1
The worst UI change for Windows 11 is that opening its namesake Window (file explorer) often crashes the operating system. The second worst is that Ctrl+p then Enter doesn't print anymore and instead asks you to change the printer from the default
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The worst UI change for Windows 11 is that opening its namesake Window (file explorer) often crashes the operating system. The second worst is that Ctrl+p then Enter doesn't print anymore and instead asks you to change the printer from the default
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dinner du nord is downtown as playground: the elites dine on steak on nicollet mall while cops collect OT looking at their phones and an 81 year old woman asks me why buses are gone and she had to walk home to loring
September 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
dinner du nord is downtown as playground: the elites dine on steak on nicollet mall while cops collect OT looking at their phones and an 81 year old woman asks me why buses are gone and she had to walk home to loring
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Sometimes in the world of transportation you'll hear arguments against bike lanes because they don't align with the "user-pay, user-benefit" theory but there are many times where everyone can benefit
Transportation is not a zero-sum game
Separated bike lanes do benefit bikes, but not only bikes
Transportation is not a zero-sum game
Separated bike lanes do benefit bikes, but not only bikes
September 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sometimes in the world of transportation you'll hear arguments against bike lanes because they don't align with the "user-pay, user-benefit" theory but there are many times where everyone can benefit
Transportation is not a zero-sum game
Separated bike lanes do benefit bikes, but not only bikes
Transportation is not a zero-sum game
Separated bike lanes do benefit bikes, but not only bikes
Saw the improved bike path on Minnesota in downtown Saint Paul yesterday, it's so nice! Im glad they are adding infrastructure to make downtown safer and more pleasant for me to visit and for my retired mom to get her steps in from her condo.
September 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Saw the improved bike path on Minnesota in downtown Saint Paul yesterday, it's so nice! Im glad they are adding infrastructure to make downtown safer and more pleasant for me to visit and for my retired mom to get her steps in from her condo.
Segue to more careful spelling choices this morning
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Segue to more careful spelling choices this morning
At the Saints game and they are advertising anti-Summit-bike-lane, pro-car messages on the jumbotron. Very disappointed, and t was all brought to you by Busch Light, because nothing goes together better than crushing beers and driving
September 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
At the Saints game and they are advertising anti-Summit-bike-lane, pro-car messages on the jumbotron. Very disappointed, and t was all brought to you by Busch Light, because nothing goes together better than crushing beers and driving
Street work down the street and the house is shaking with the cadence of a cat cleaning itself
September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Street work down the street and the house is shaking with the cadence of a cat cleaning itself
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
Still close to the 3, so I support this site over the farmer's market. Transit options still much diminished over the Target Center
To give you a sense of how big the Strib’s possible redevelopment site is, it’s in yellow and the whole North Loop is in red. You could build a basketball arena there!
September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Still close to the 3, so I support this site over the farmer's market. Transit options still much diminished over the Target Center
Guy who likes cilantro BECAUSE it tastes like soap
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Guy who likes cilantro BECAUSE it tastes like soap